Hey everyone, I hope you are well. One of the common questions I get asked is ‘how do I start freelancing’ and I thought of answering it today in this blog post. MY STORY Thinking back I realise that I…
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Online Tools to Use When You’re a Content Creator
UPDATE: I recently updated this blog post to add more online tools I’m using as a Writer and Content Creator. In 2016, I started using the online scheduling tool, hootsuite.com to schedule old blog posts and social media updates. Before…
Career change at 42
Hello everyone, Today I’m sharing the story of my friend, Maryna Barnard. She was in the teaching profession for almost 20 years and became a professional attorney in her 40s. She started teaching in 1996, she told me. Years later…
7 benefits of blogging
I got an invite by the television channel ITV Networks to come chat on their show, Let’s Talk about blogging. The show I was interviewed on, was pre-recorded and it aired on Saturday morning. I was pretty flabbergasted when I…
Life Coach: “How to see your vision”
On Monday I shared the blog post “Three Lessons A Life Coach Taught Me“. I mentioned my Life Coach, Kavita Govindjee in there. Below is a guest post done by her. Enjoy reading! How many dreams have been lost and…
Three lessons a Life Coach taught me
I met Kavita Govindjee (BComm Hons), a Life and Executive Coach, through a blog post of a fellow blogger, Venean of In The Meantime. Kavita spoke about intentional parenting and this resonated with me. At the time I was struggling…
3 Podcasts About Brand Partnerships And How To Start Pitching For Brands
One of the topics I Googled over the holidays was on how to pitch for brands as a blogger. I came across blog posts of mostly overseas bloggers who spoke about how to introduce yourself as an influencer to a…
How to come up with story ideas or blog posts
There was a time when I woke up in the mornings, give a sigh and tell myself that I didn’t want to go to work. Why? Well, I didn’t have any worthy stories for my Editor. After pitching a few…